BP: We Might Drill Again In Disaster Zone

When I first read this I thought,"you've got to be kidding me," but I realize there is money to be made and our dependence on oil keeps the wheels
turning(pun is okay).
Surely lessons have been learned and the next attempt will be better safeguarded as in Sonar Acoustic Detection systems, safety alarms that are left
alone to fully function and one heck of a "just in case back up plan."
It sounds ludicrous in some sense, but at the same time the ole "jobs and growth" factor come into play I guess.

"There's lots of oil and gas here," Chief Operating Officer Doug Suttles said at a news briefing. "We're going to have to think about what to do
with that at some point."

The vast oil reservoir beneath the blown well is still believed to hold nearly $4 billion worth of crude. With the company and its partners facing
tens of billions of dollars in liabilities, the incentive to exploit the wells and the reservoir could grow.

Retired Coast Guard Adm. Thad Allen, the government's point man on the spill, said he had no information on BP's future plans.

"I would assume that's a policy issue related to the management of the lease," he told reporters. "Frankly, it hasn't been raised to my level at
this point. I'm not sure I can comment on it."

Why risk the human cost and the marine life in the Gulf with another hole in the same unstable place? $4 Billion is not a lot of money by comparison
to the what the FED steals on a daily basis. Isn't there a more tidy way of satiating that greed monkey? Leave the Gulf alone and go talk to yer
buddies in the Oval Office.

When I first saw this article I also thought, "You've got to be kidding!" I guess I just thought that maybe there was a lesson learned somewhere
here in the gulf.

Do the figures on the cost of this spill include the loss of oil in terms of wasted oil (x number of barrels leaked times the going rate per
barrel)?

Is the amount in the reserve enough to justify another attempt?

I have made a serious try to "green up" in a lot of ways and with all this mess lately, I guess I am going to have to try a little harder and find
some new things I can do. I realize that we are so "embedded" with oil that to go completely oil free is impossible to do, but I would hope that
maybe a little conservation might be in order.

Apparently in the deeper waters of the gulf there are vast amounts of untapped oil. So yes they will continue, but hopefully with better safety
protocol. The Deepwater platform was one of the first to begin venturing out that deep.
I was going to provide a specific example but found this site that has numerous related articles on 1 page: interesting read www.energyplanusa.com...

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